Summer Marketing Intern

Summer Marketing Intern

Not Currently Hiring

Position Type:

Student Positions - Summer

Do you love UNC? Have you had a positive experience living in campus housing? Are you a talented writer that is savvy with social media and would enjoy capturing stories about residence life at UNC? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

The Department of Housing & Residential Education is hiring a Marketing Intern for the summer to write stories and create digital content for the Residence Life blog (reslife.web.unc.edu) that covers:

Student perspectives about what living on campus is like.

Student accounts of how getting involved in leadership opportunities has shaped their college experience.

Programs and special events in the residence halls.

Special recognition and accomplishments of "spotlight" residents or Housing student staff.

Your other responsibility will be to manage our social media community and run contests/promotions throughout the summer. You will generate, edit, publish and share daily content that builds meaningful connections and encourages the target market to take action. You will then capture and analyze the appropriate social data/metrics, insights and best practices for each platform. In addition to managing social media, you will be asked to capture accompanying photos and/or work with the Video Production Intern to create multimedia content for your platforms. You will also work orientation events, take pictures, and participate in other hands-on experiences.

Primary Duties

Pitch and write blog stories about life in campus housing for a target audience of incoming first-year students.

In addition to writing, you will photograph residence hall interiors, special events on campus and student staff.

Finally, the marketing intern will represent the Department of Housing & Residential Education at orientation. This involves fielding questions from parents and students and providing advice about getting connected to campus through Housing.

Required Skills

To excel in the Marketing internship position, candidates should:

Understand and be supportive of Housing’s overall mission.

Be able to actively seek out and propose creative new story ideas.

Be able to write in a succinct yet friendly, conversational voice without compromising proper grammar and spelling.

Be very savvy and creative with social media.

Produce approximately two blog posts per week (total of ~1,000 words).

Compensation

Contact Person

To Apply

Download the application form below. Keep the writing in your responses concise, and use this opportunity to demonstrate your ability to write in a conversational voice that would appeal to our readers. We consider 3-4 sentences per question to be a sufficient response.